Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

March 13, 1956

Thad Jones Sextet

Audio-Video Studios, NYC

In the room

The takes

What the numbers mean

BN308-2 is a matrix number: Blue Note gave every tune it recorded the next number in one running series (BN308 is "Humph"), and the figure after the dash is which take of that tune was kept. Early on the series starts each tune's takes at 0, so -0 is usually the first try.

tk. 5 is the take as counted through the whole day, from the first tune to the last: the way the studio's log and, from the mid-1950s, Rudy Van Gelder's tapes number them. Later dates have only these.

On the earliest records (1939–40) the numbers in the matrix place, like 486A-1 or GM535-6, are the masters' numbers from the studios and pressing plants Blue Note used before it had its own series.

Matrix · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 3TariffBLP 1513
tk. 14Blue RoomBLP 1513
tk. 19Little Girl BlueBLP 1513
tk. 28ScratchBLP 1513
tk. 30ZecBLP 1513
5 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

4 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1543Kenny Burrell Volume 2Kenny Burrell1957Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Pettiford, Shadow Wilson

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1546The Magnificent Thad Jones Volume 3Thad Jones1957Thad Jones, Billy Mitchell, Tommy Flanagan

2 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1523Introducing Kenny BurrellKenny Burrell1956Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan
BLP 1527The Magnificent Thad JonesThad Jones1956Thad Jones, Billy Mitchell